Edmund Hillary

“I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.”

“I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to...”

“Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.”

“Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.”

“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.”

“Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.”

“If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and...”

“I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.”

“I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.”